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The Art Of The Ancient Selfie

22 August 2014

You
may remember I wrote a post earlier in the year on our obsession with selfies, well
it’s just got a whole load funnier!!! It began, as so many monumental internet
trends have, on Reddit. A user visited Ireland’s Crawford Art Gallery, where he
cleverly manipulated his camera-phone around Greco-Roman statues, many of which
just happen to have their arms outstretched in an uncanny gesture of
selfie-taking, to look like they are participating in the social media craze.

Following the original post, other Redditors joined in with their versions. Soon, statueselfies, was born.

There is currently a call to action for someone to take one of the Venus de Milo. It looks like this more creative riff on the #MuseumSelfie has taken off.